108 «60 THE HISTORY OF BEES; 
SOR, IR SOW, GPANED hale 
OT more Vie 
Of the Swarming and Hiving of Bees. 

* wf sede HE principal reafon ae they way is 


<s sores oe at Mr. Rufden) thro’ diftafte,  ailesehaaiaes 
* or mifmanagement. 
<< And in hives they fwarm not a) for want of 
<< room, without other concurring circumftances ; fuch 
« as aking in ‘readinefs ; multitude of fubjeéts, prof- 
<¢ nedt of plenty; together with weather, which is in- 
“ viting. | 
‘ Every fwarm is compofed of all the three forts, viz. 
2 Queen, great numbers of common Bees, both old and 
young, and Drones, whofe numbers are uncertain; fome. 
{warms have more of thefe than others. Dr. Butler is 
of opinion, that thofe {warms which have moft Drones 
will moft furely profper, but I doubt it, till I fee it pro- 
ved. piykk 
The multitude of fwarms does not predi&t or promife 
the profperity of an apiary. Witnefs the laft fummer 3 
in which I had’no lefs than 86 or 87 fwarms; a confide- 
rable number of which at Adichaelmas, had not honey 
half enough to maintain them till the {pring. The 
